Financial measures are critical for business success and if you're a manager, for your career. That may scare some people. But here's the good news: there is a relatively small number of essential management ratios with which you can measure any aspect of business performance you need to. If you can master these, you will have a firm grip of business finance and need never be put off by the numbers again. Key Management Ratios cuts straight to the measures that matter. It shows you what they...

Announcing the Third Edition of the Bestseller - unrivalled both in its contemporary relevance to research methodology, and in its coverage of the interplay between the philosophy of science, methodology and business.

"Henry Mintzberg's views are a breath of fresh air which can only encourage the good guys." The Observer "My favourite management book of the last 25 years? No contest. The Rise & Fall of Strategic Planning." Tom Peters, managment guru Strategy is the most prestigious but also the most confusing part of business. Managers are constantly bombarded with new jargon and the latest fads promising the magic bullet for every strategic problem.

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This book aims to equip those in, or entering business to assess the opportunities, limitations and major issues surrounding modern business information systems and to appreciate the way that information systems can aid the realization of business objectives. This book provides students with: good technical coverage, accessible coverage for both business students and computing students, interesting case studies, including a running case throughout the systems development chapters, showing rea...

De magische vijfhoek;is een begrip uit de economische politiek. Het staat voor de vijf doelstellingen: evenwichtige arbeidsmarkt, economische groei, stabiele prijzen, redelijke inkomensverdeling en evenwicht op de betalingsbalans. Het boek is geschreven voor de economisch geinteresseerde krantenlezer. Het geeft een goed inzicht in de betekenis van de begrippen en de problemen die ermee samenhangen, ongeacht de politieke visie van waaruit men deze doelstelling probeert te realiseren. Vijf aute...